FYI: Amazon's corner stores scan your plates Amazon is reportedly looking to launch a series of small convenience stores that will offer onsite pickups of merchandise ordered online, and will scan the license plates of approaching drivers. A report from The Wall Street Journal cites sources familiar in claiming that the online retail giant is not only planning to expand …
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Oh well, that's okay then - no-one is allowed to misuse it.
Rrriight...
in order to get more Ad hits.
I'll leave it to you to work out who does and does not do this.
I now actively avoid Google and Microsoft.
It does not matter because 'The Man' has at least one backup copy of your whole life.
Oh, and forget the HDD platter man, it is all up there in the Clouds like the Birds.
Jeez that was some good shit I had last night.
Google are better than most. Their privacy policy is very clear what they use, how they use it. Microsoft, Apple,Facebook are far worse. The Facebook account I deleted 5 years ago still knows about relationships to people I may know. Clearly they never deleted that stuff....
They're still competitive for me because they ACTUALLY HAVE STOCK.
My Best Buy has not had the items I wanted in 14 of the last 16 visits. I only go because it's next door to the Staples that has what I want about half the time.
And I'm talking pretty generic stuff like "a wired mouse" or "a wired network card" or "a non-WD hard drive" or "a mid-range nvidia card"
Amazon will know what make/model you drive so will be able to generate endless,
"We thought you might like to drive this super expensive car instead of your rustbucket..." ads.
or
"Now is the time to trade in that heap of yours before it falls apart. May we suggest these alternatives?"
or
"We see that you have not paid off your car loan yet. We can offer great deals on re-financing..."
Google won't be far behind with their AI.
Can anyone else see a hundred things wrong with this? You'll need to actually drive past the shop, or park outside, and you can't use Uber, you can't walk, cycle, bus, tram, ferry, get a mate to drop you off, or use your personal jetpack to take "advantage" of picking up your parcel a dubious 30 seconds earlier than you otherwise might. In the meantime data is getting collected on the other ten thousand people passing the shop daily who have no business with Amazon. Why not just set up a Stingray cellular site and sniff the mac of the customer's phone FFS? Y'know, while we're overextending and slurping unnecessary data and all that.
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